I had fantastic help with moving the Archives to Avila Hall in April. Mark, one of our contract employees and Anthony, one of our senior students who works for campus safety and our facilities office did the heavy lifting. They also disassembled and re-assembled shelving in both locations. Though, in order to use existing library shelving for the temporary location I had to juggle collections so the guys could take apart my shelving units. To do this I moved the St. Paul School of Theology collections (being temporarily housed with us) to a locking study room elsewhere in the library. It was a tight fit, but doable since it was a very temporary fix. The whole move took about two weeks, with the guys occasionally being pulled away to work on other projects across campus.

This is how most of the archival collections were moved.

Hauling a piece of the flat file cabinet

Beginning to box up the Women Religious Special Collections

Middle shelving unit is gone, giving us more room to haul and pack materials

Anthony disassembles shelving in the Archives

Women Religious Special Collections all boxed up

Temporary onsite location for the St. Paul School of Theology archival collections (plus part of the Women Religious collections)

Mark hauling a load of books from the Women Religious Collections

I have help assembling boxes for the Women Religious Collections

With the help of our Social Media Librarian, Paige Libbert, I boxed up nine large file cabinets full of research files from the U.S. Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph collection.